Robot, the most famous Czech, celebrates 100 years
In 1920, thirty years old Karel Čapek, an emerging literary star of the newborn Czechoslovakia, was thinking about a new play for the National Theater in Prague. Its heroes would be "artificial workers" or "living and intelligent working machines". When he racked brains how to name them, first he came up with Labors. However, he was not entirely satisfied. He shared his doubts with his older brother. Josef Čapek was a respected painter, they had already written a few things together, so Karel often took his advice. "'Name them Robots,' the painter muttered with a brush in his mouth and continued to paint. "And that was it," Karel Čapek himself later described it.
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